Safeway’s refusal to fully fund pensions for its workers has become the main sticking point in contract negotiations, reports UFCW Local 400.
The union has met with Safeway negotiators twice this week but reports no progress on the key pension issue. In the meantime, Local 400 is continuing to prepare for a strike at Safeway. They’re distributing letters to neighboring businesses at shopping centers to ask for their support and to inform them that picket lines will appear in front of Safeway stores if a strike is called. A strike vote is scheduled for March 5, when union members will also vote on the tentative contract agreement already reached with Giant. On today’s labor calendar, tune in at 1 o’clock this afternoon right here on WPFW when our guest on this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work will be Hamilton Nolan, the new labor columnist at In These Times. For all the latest local labor events listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1939, the Supreme Court ruled that sit-down strikes, a major organizing tool for industrial unions, were illegal. Today’s labor quote is by Eugene Victor Debs, the legendary labor leader and socialist presidential candidate who became a charter member and secretary of the Vigo Lodge at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen on this date in 1875. Five years later he was leading the national union and in 1893 helped found the nation’s first industrial union, the American Railway Union. Gene Debs, who said: “While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Did you know that union members can save up to 25% on car rentals with Union Plus. Break your cabin fever and book a car rental now to get your union discount. Visit unionplus.org/carrental to get started. You can also support Union City Radio and WPFW by contributing during our Winter Pledge Drive; call 202-588-9739 or pledge online at wpfwfm.org. Thank you so much!
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